Doc Holliday | The Road to Tombstone (Part 2)
The Wild West Extravaganza
Wild West Josh
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:30.2 | Back in 1878, Todd City was a veritable who's who of the Wild West. Not only did you have |
| 0:36.0 | Bad Masterson as the county sheriff, along with the legendary |
| 0:38.7 | Charlie Bassett as the town marshal, but you also had a young lawman by the name of Wyatt Earp serving |
| 0:43.6 | as Bassett's second in command. Not to mention other notable characters like Bill Tillman, J.J. Webb, |
| 0:49.5 | mysterious Dave Mather, and even a dentist slash gambler known as Doc Holiday. In fact, it's there in Dodge, |
| 0:56.9 | either during the spring or summer of 1878, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, formed a friendship |
| 1:01.9 | that would last a lifetime. Story goes that Earp found himself surrounded one evening by a gang of |
| 1:07.6 | desperadoes. Outnumbered, and with no way out, Wyatt had no choice but to stand |
| 1:12.3 | his ground come what may. And then just as things seemed dire, here comes Holiday, running out of saloon, |
| 1:18.3 | pistols in each hand, and holding the narrowed wells at bay is Wyatt placed him under arrest. |
| 1:23.6 | Now even though Doc and Wyatt had first become acquainted down in Texas months prior, |
| 1:28.1 | according to Earp, it was, quote, because of this episode that I became the friend of Doc |
| 1:32.8 | Holiday ever after, end of quote. |
| 1:36.0 | There are additional stories regarding Holiday's time there in Dodge, claiming that he was |
| 1:40.3 | everything from a dangerous drunk to a con artist, but so far as the official records are concerned, it does appear as if he kept a relatively |
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